W.7.2b Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples. W.7.2c Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

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W.7.2c Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

W.7.2.a. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

W.7.2d Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

W.7.2d Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

Below is the second paragraph of the sample essay. If a sentence includes a comma that should be omitted, cross it out with an X. If a sentence is missing a comma, add one and circle it.

Asthma is hard on every single individual who has it because it sometimes makes breathing difficult. A trigger, such as smoke, dust, mold, or pet dander, can set it off. For some people, vigorous, energetic exercise is a trigger. Schools can set up reasonable, practical policies to help students control their asthma. For example, schools should keep their air clean. Considerate school leaders should prohibit all smoking on school property. In addition, students should be allowed to keep their inhalers. Schools with strict, written policies on medicines should make exceptions for students with asthma.

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Asthma is hard on every single individual who has it because it sometimes makes breathing difficult. A trigger, such as smoke, dust, mold, or pet dander, can set it off. For some people, vigorous, energetic exercise is a trigger. Schools can set up reasonable, practical policies to help students control their asthma. For example, schools should keep their air clean. Considerate school leaders should prohibit all smoking on school property. In addition, students should be allowed to keep their inhalers. Schools with strict, written policies on medicines should make exceptions for students with asthma.

Monday concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.

Practice Prior Skills

Learning Goals

Label the following:

For thousand of years, people have raised fish and other water animals for food.

Word of the Week: conjure (v) to bring to mind (make something up- it has the connotation of not being truthful)The driver conjured up an excuse for texting while driving, but the excuse was unacceptable.

12 point Times New Roman Font or similar (Something basic and easy to read)

Double Space

One-inch margins on all sides

Indent paragraphs (5 spaces tab)

MLA Format - Title hero, actor, or musician and explain how key events helped them to achieve their current status.

Title and identification MLA does not require a title page.

On the first page of your paper, place your name, your instructor’s name, the course title, and the date on separate lines against the left margin. Then center your title. Click here for a sample first page, or go to the next slide.

1. Author named in a signal phrase Ordinarily, introduce the material being cited with a signal phrase that includes the author’s name. In addition to preparing readers for the source, the signal phrase allows you to keep the parenthetical citation brief.

Frederick Lane reports that employers do not necessarily have to use software to monitor how their employees use the Web: employers can “use a hidden video camera pointed at an employee’s monitor” and even position a camera ”so that a number of monitors [can] be viewed at the same time” (147).

2. Author named in parentheses If a signal phrase does not name the author, put the author’s last name in parentheses along with the page number. Use no punctuation between the name and the page number.

Companies can monitor employees’ every keystroke without legal penalty, but they may have to combat low morale as a result (Lane 129).

4. Page number unknownDo not include the page number if a work lacks page numbers, as is the case with many Web sources. Even if a printout from a Web site shows page numbers, treat the source as unpaginated in the in-text citation because not all printouts give the same page numbers. (When the pages of a Web source are stable, as in PDF files, supply a page number in your in-text citation.)

As a 2005 study by Salary.com and America Online indicates, the Internet ranked as the top choice among employees for ways of wasting time on the job; it beat talking with co-workers—the second most popular method—by a margin of nearly two to one (Frauenheim).

If a source has numbered paragraphs or sections, use “par.” (or “pars.”) or “sec.” (or “secs.”) in the parentheses: (Smith, par. 4). Notice that a comma follows the author’s name in this case.